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Strike of the Cobra: A Novel

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In the same vein as Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts, et al, Timothy Rizzi creates a viable, if a little far-fetched, technothriller scenario...Though stock characters populate this book, Rizzi does a fine job with the technical end, especially the aerial dogfighting and the covert ground ops...The last hundred pages dragged a little, but again, that's forgivable, because suspense and action are so hard to sustain over almost 500 pages...

There's nothing spectacular here, but die-hard technothriller fans will find solid, honest reading...

i like when the characters move from book to book to keep the story line open

For years I have been a devout Clancy fan. I firmly belived that no one could come close to matching Clancy's uncanny ability to capture the military-technothriller. Timothy Rizzi's Strike of the Cobra changed all that. Rizzi captured all the nessicary details and information required to make the pages fly and you feel like you are there. Rizzi describes everything down to the number of G's a pilot is feeling as he throws his F-15E into a tight vertical climb to avoid the SAM locked onto his tailfire. Rizzi does not waste ink on useless information. Every word propels the plot to the stunning climatic areial fighter battle. The charactors have depth and realisim. You can identify with them. They have personality. Rizzi has created a masterful novel. This one is worth the read!

An interesting premise, but ultimately, although the technology is very cool and reasonably accurate, it doesn't hold very well together from a character development PO